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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
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If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
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If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
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If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
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If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.
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If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
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If there is anything that a man can do and do it well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
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If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
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If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.
Source: The Bright Side of Billy Wilder -
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
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If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
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If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.
Source: The British Journal of Sociology Structure of Power in America, Vol. 9 (March 1958) -
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
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